Smoke and blurry visual effects are used more to obscure the dingy production design rather than enhance the movie with relatively low-rent costuming and make-up effects.

They should've called it "The Cell 2: Poor Frank Whaley."

The Cell 2 takes one of the most original and disturbing horror movies of recent years and turns it into a generic torture porn flick.

This film reeks of the old b-movie tradition: If we don't know how to sell it, we can call it a sequel to better film.